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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 ʹ October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer,
editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best
known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American
practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He
is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first
well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a
financially difficult life and career.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; his parents died when he was young. Poe
was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted
him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military
career, Poe parted ways with the Allans. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an
anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a
Bostonian".

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals
and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to
move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York
City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845,
Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years
later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus),
though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in
Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain
congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in
specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout
popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated
museums today.



An Acrostic The City in the Sea An Enigma

A Dream The Coliseum Evening Star
A Dream Within A Dream The Conqueror Worm Eulalie
Al Aaraaf The Divine Right Of Kings Fairy-Land
Alone Dream-Land Fanny
Annabel Lee Dreams For Annie
Bells Eldorado The Happiest Day
Beloved Physician Elizabeth The Haunted Palace
Bridal Ballad Epigram for Wall Street Hymn
A Campaign Song Enigma Impromtu. To Kate Carol
Irene(The Sleeper)
Israfel
The Lake
Lenore
The Raven
Romance
ToͶ (Song)
 The Gold Bug

 
The Angel of The Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon-Hoax
Berenice
The Black Cat
Bon-Bon
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
The Colloquy of Monos
and Una
The Conversation of Eiros
and Charmion
A Decided Loss (see "Loss
of Breath")
A Descent Into The
Maelstrom
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling Considered as
One of the Exact Sciences
Doctor Tarr and Professor
Fether
The Duc De L'Omlette
The Domain of Arnheim
Eleonora
Epimanies (see "Four
Beasts in One")
Eureka - A Prose Poem
The Facts in the Case of M.
Valdemar
The Fall of the House of
Usher
Four Beasts In One - The
Homo Cameleopard
The Spirits of the Dead To MͶ
Tamerlane To One In Paradise
The Valley of Unrest Ulalume
To FͶs S. OͶd A Valentine
To Helen The Valley of Unrest
To Helen
To The River--
Hans Phaall Never Bet The Devil Your
Hop-Frog Head
How to Write a Blackwood Oblong Box
Article Oval Portrait
The Imp of the Perverse Pit and the Pendulum
The Island of the Fay The Power of Words
The Journal of Julius A Predicament
Rodman Premature Burial
King Pest Purloined Letter
Landor's Cottage Shadow - A Parable
The Landscape Garden Silence - A Fable
Ligeia Some Words With a
Lionizing Mummy
Loss of Breath (The) Spectacles
Literary Life of Thingum The Sphinx
Bob, ESQ. The System of Doctor Tarr
The Man of the Crowd and Professor Fether
The Man That Was Used A Tale of the Ragged
Up Mountains
Masque of Red Death A Tale of Jerusalem
Mellonta Tauta The Tell-Tale Heart
Mesmeric Revelation Thou Art The Man
Metzengerstein The Thousand-and-Second
Morella Tale of Scheherazade
Morning On The Three Sundays in a Week
Wissahiccon The Unparalleled
Ms. Found in a Bottle Adventure of One Hans
Murders in the Rue Pfaall
Morgue Von Kempelen and His
Mystery of Marie Roget Discovery
Mystification Why the Little Frenchman
Narrative of Arthur Wears His Hand in a Sling
Gordon Pym William Wilson